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What SD card to use with Clip+?

post #1 of 6
9/26/11 at 6:43am
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I have a clip+ on the way from Amazon. I'm going to use it to play FLACs I'm ripping from CDs, so it's going to run out of space pretty fast, so I need an SD card.

 

What's the biggest SD card the Clip+ can handle?

What's the lowest class I can go to?

What class should I get? Is there overkill going too high?

Is any of this different with Rockbox?

 

Thanks.

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post #2 of 6
9/26/11 at 7:28am

First things first, its microsd and not sd.

 

Second can take at least up to 32 gig.

 

Third not sure of speed but faster = better obviously :)


Cheers.

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post #3 of 6
9/26/11 at 7:31am
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o___o

 

Wow.

 

I should shoot myself.

 

I *am* a computer person...

 

:S

 

I know that faster speed = better, but that's not necessarily true for the SD family cards. A card with a speed rating of 4 can be better than a card with a rating of 6, but the card with a rating of 2 might be worse yet work better in a particular device.

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post #4 of 6
9/26/11 at 8:22am
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Originally Posted by SuperTheMando View Post

o___o

 

Wow.

 

I should shoot myself.

 

I *am* a computer person...

 

:S

 

I know that faster speed = better, but that's not necessarily true for the SD family cards. A card with a speed rating of 4 can be better than a card with a rating of 6, but the card with a rating of 2 might be worse yet work better in a particular device.

How so?
 

 

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post #5 of 6
9/26/11 at 8:59am

Answered in BOLD.
 

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Originally Posted by SuperTheMando View Post

What's the biggest SD card the Clip+ can handle? Clip+ only supports microSDHC, which by spec means up to 32GB max.

 

What's the lowest class I can go to? You can go as low as you want. Even the lowest class (Class 2, or 16x) will still have read speed much faster than you need for FLAC files playback

 

What class should I get? Is there overkill going too high? The higher class you go, the faster the writing speed you will get. The faster the writing speed, the faster files can be transfered from the PC to Clip+. That's the only major benefit for using higher class SD card. If you don't mind waiting for file transfer, you can still use a low class SD.

 

Is any of this different with Rockbox? No.

 



 


Edited by ClieOS - 9/26/11 at 9:00am
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post #6 of 6
9/26/11 at 12:57pm
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Originally Posted by SuperTheMando View Post

I have a clip+ on the way from Amazon. I'm going to use it to play FLACs I'm ripping from CDs, so it's going to run out of space pretty fast, so I need an SD card.

 

What's the biggest SD card the Clip+ can handle?

What's the lowest class I can go to?

What class should I get? Is there overkill going too high?

Is any of this different with Rockbox?

 

Thanks.



Where Rockbox will be useful to you will be in battery life.....it will  double your battery life if you're using FLAC.

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